March 29, 2012

Seven Paintings by Suzanne Eisendieck

Eisendieck is an artist that most people have never heard of
and a great many people will not like. I like some of them.
I just discovered her name and work very recently despite the fact that I
had the first painting here in my “Unknown Artist” file for many years. I kept it until I could properly
identify it because I thought it had something interesting to it. I was shocked to discover that she died in the 1990's, and not in the 1920's.

For the most part I appreciate her unique approach to
impressionism—it seems to me like she used the impressionist method for
expressive ends, not merely for the sake of “capturing the transient nature of
light” or something like that, which is artistically pointless. However, her approach seems like merely a good start. I think a
superior artist could have taken her style and developed it into something
that was much more compelling.

Despite all this, her work seems to have elements that many young
artists would want to adapt and I am surprised that more contemporary
art students don’t admire her work.

4 comments:

Thanks for posting these paintings - I hadn't known of her before. Have you seen the full version of your #1, "Woman with a Parasol"? I found it online at http://www.odonwagnergallery.com/international-traditional-art/suzanne-eisendieck (there's 12 paintings to scroll and that one is at the far right).